A million jobless byXmas?

WHEN THE TORY Party conference PRESSURE is rapidly building up both outside and inside Edward Heath's five-month-old Tory government for no-holds-barred action against working-class living standards by means of a massive dose of freeze and saueeze.

Both political and financial commentators are now openly talking in terms of at least a million unemployed by Christmas, a round of big-firm bankruptcies and a three-month wage freeze.

The foreign-exchange tumble taken by the pound yesterday will strengthen the determination of Treasury officials, Cabinet 'hawks' and leading industrialists to urge precisely this course on this week's Cabinet meeting. ling tel because confedence med te Tories after their mini-Budget cuts took a knock with last Thursday's 50s council settlement.

Incensed by the Scamp recommendation, the Tory far right is howling for the miners' blood.

The main lines of future Tory policy, however, were already clear from last week's House of Commons debate on Chancellor Barber's cuts. Feather against Bill - in words SPEAKING to school children from all over the country who attended the 16th Ford Lecture to Youth in London yesterday, TUC general secretary Mr Vic Feather attacked the government's Industrial Relations Bill.

He repeated his charge that it was an attempt to bring the American system of bargaining to Britain and said TUC emphasis was on economic growth.

'If a government has plans for profits and prices as well as wages, we are prepared to go along with it whatever its political complexion,' he said.

A WARNING to Tory Employment Secretary Robert Carr that he would get no help from the trade unions in preparing their own grave, was made yesterday Union deputy secretary Mr Norman Stagg.

Mr Stagg told a Bournemouth conference of branch •Having arranged the nature of our death, he seeks consultation on the funeral arrangements: but he must understand that we Enoch Powell THE REAL Tory job of slashing government expenditure has not begun, according to extreme right-winger Enoch Powell.

In last weekend's 'Sunday Express' Powell welcomes the Barber budget cuts, but complains that they do not even begin to tackle the class-war tasks the Tories set themselves before the election.

Powell's aim is the complete abolition of public services. He say as much when • he comments on • the imposition of prescription charges.

'Only if charges result in the corresponding public service being reduced has State expenditure been cut,' he says.

This might perhaps happen as a result of full prices for school meals'-i.e., the number of school meals eaten would fall-but probably the only true cuts in the whole of health and education are the abolition of school milk and welfare milk.' Powell goes out of his way to praise those cuts that bear down most heavily on defenceless children. But there is more to come.

Not only must council house subsidies be cut, according to this high Tory logician, but also:

It is only if lower housing suhsidies in future recult in LULUIC I COUIL 111 councils building fewer houses that the state sector will have contracted: otherwise housing will remain half-nationalized as at present!

Venom What venom this Tory extremist brings to bear on the gains of the working class!

How he hates the gains that workers' struggles have won.

When he speaks out against the Health Service, against school meals and milk, against housing subsidies, and against the entire welfare structure laboriously fought-and paid —for by the working class, Powell is voicing the true sentiments of Toryism.

What he says today, Heath will do tomorrow: just as his venomous campaign against immigrants now leads the Tories to advance their apartobject to a premature death at the hands of others. 'We do not intend to assist in the preparation of our own grave' Fighting talk. But the TUC is preparing precisely for a funeral, as Workers Press has insisted from the start of the fight against the anti-union laws.

The remarks of engineers' and foundryworkers' president Hugh Scanlon, ported yesterday, are further warning of the THE TIMES Noy. 7. 197 MORETHAN SCAMP. RECOMMENGATTON NOTHING 10%! pledge aid to glassworkers FIRST ROUND of the All Trades Unions Alliance's regional conference on the anti-Tory struggle and the sacked Pilkington glassworkers' reinstatement fight proved highly successful. 100 shop, union rank-and. ilers met in each of the thres • fight both. posed lant victim izations.

In Sheffield, a large delegation of striking miners heard Pilkington rank-and-file committee secretary John Potter link the glassmen's struggle with their own.

urgent necessity of stepping up the campaign to make the union leaders fight the Tories.

' Scanlon, evidently reconciled to seeing the Tory anti-union proposals on the statute book, said on BBC radio that the government had the means to get the Bill through 'if that is what they wish is there any doubt? and if wiser counsels [presumably those of the TUC leaders] do not prevail'.

Fund reaches E180 17s 1d Christmas is possible, says th Our Wreal strengthat at once. Everubt, it can mobilize mor the more unions to de battle arainst such attacks.

Join today. Start towards beal Fund Londons se sel Builders back victimized glass towers Rowlinson site morning, only to • there was no supervisi. A conciliation-pane weeeting nonnation nonal meeting found the men getting their back.

NO FURTHER BIDDINN 'OLLAPSE BEAT THEI And don't try it on with the miners eithe Conferences By Industrial reporter The following message was sent to the conference by workers from Sheffield's Batchelor's Foods plant, who are striking against the sackand foundryword Engineers.

convenor Terry Devey—a member of the city's AEF district committee and long-standing Communist Party member:

'We strikers from Batchelor's express full solidarity and unity of purpose with the Pilkington strikers.

'We further state that it is our intention, as it must be ments purpose, which to defeat the managebreak workshop organization and encourage the utmost industrial chaos in an effort to discredit strike action.

'This is an endeavour managements' part to rush Industrial Relations through parliament.

'Win both our struggles we strike the biggest against this Bill.

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heid-style plans for passing laws against immigrant The deduction, he says, is clear:

'It is no criticism of a government so new in office, but 1t IS clear nevertheless. The policies which can bring about the major reductions of taxation expected of a Conservative government are still in the future. We have not heard them yet. No doubt they have not been decided yet.' which added about tea year income tax — to the averag family income nd about £30 a week to the income of tor industrialists— *is only a little nip of somea bit before we start out thing to warm our hearts the road; for the real job has not yet begun.

Powell is due to appear on an hour-long television documentary tonight.

His ultra right-wing policies receive a considerable boost during the programme, according to advance reports.

In particular he repeats his attacks on immigrants, signed to split the working class.

'The Asian population,' he says, 'is piece of Asia encamped in Wolverhampton.. Asians are a "caravan" and one cannot be of service tne same the caravan one can to one's hate low-counces ene running into crisis Heath tries to get to grips determined powerful and working class, Powell is once again coming forward with his